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From Hamilton Gamble to Hamilton R. Gamble
[page 1]
Head Quarters, State of Missouri.
St. Louis,
August 26 1863
Dear Father[,]
Contrary to my expectation I received instructions at Indianapolis to return home without going to Iowa. Caston had returned from Kansas and Nebraska without having accomplished anything, and made the same report of the impossibility of doing anything at the State offices.
I do not know yet what duty I shall be assigned to. Gov[.] Hall is in Jefferson City, and I expect to go up in the morning to see him.
Everything has gone on very well at the house, the yard looks beautiful, and the house a good deal cleaner than it did.
No steps have been taken yet toward

On August 26, 1863, Hamilton Gamble writes from Headquarters, State of Missouri, in St. Louis to his father, Missouri Gov. Hamilton R. Gamble. Gamble reports, ""The Democrat abuses you as usual, and charges the horrible massacre at Lawrence to the sympathy of the Hamilton Dynasty with the bushwhackers."" He adds that Gen. Schofield issued ""a bombastic order in reference to the Lawrence outrage, and…is preparing to cut loose from the 'Gamble Dynasty.'""

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From Hamilton Gamble to Hamilton R. Gamble
[page 1]
Head Quarters, State of Missouri.
St. Louis,
August 26 1863
Dear Father[,]
Contrary to my expectation I received instructions at Indianapolis to return home without going to Iowa. Caston had returned from Kansas and Nebraska without having accomplished anything, and made the same report of the impossibility of doing anything at the State offices.
I do not know yet what duty I shall be assigned to. Gov[.] Hall is in Jefferson City, and I expect to go up in the morning to see him.
Everything has gone on very well at the house, the yard looks beautiful, and the house a good deal cleaner than it did.
No steps have been taken yet toward